Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a generation of viewers in the late 1960s, Dark Shadows was a daily ritual of chills, romance, and gothic glamour accompanied ...

For millions of viewers in the late 1960s, the Dark Shadows TV show wasn't just another daytime soap—it was an obsession. Kids rushed home from school to catch it, adults adjusted their schedules ...

Joe Caldwell, a writer on the original 1960s gothic cult-hit daytime TV series Dark Shadows who co-created the show’s ...

Caldwell and co-writer Ron Sproat are why 'Dark Shadows' endure to this day and will get an upcoming animated TV series.

Joe Caldwell, the acclaimed playwright, novelist and television writer who helped transform Dark Shadows into a cult ...

Plus, everything we know about the new series.

A new documentary recalls the life and career of Jonathan Frid, the actor who played Barnabas Collins, a 175-year-old guilt -ridden vampire on Dark Shadows, the horror-themed daytime soap opera that ...

While vampires are known for draining the life out of things, they sometimes bring newfound immortal life. Metaphorically, the latter is what happened to one failing TV soap opera. When 1966's "Dark ...

Warner Bros. Animation is reimagining the ABC series as an adult animation series.

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's Dark Shadows has released its first trailer. Based on the '60s gothic horror soap opera, the movie sees Depp take on the role of vampire Barnabas Collins as he encounters ...

Warner Bros. Animation announced a new adult animated series based on Dark Shadows on Friday, June 27, 2026 — exactly 60 years to the day after the original gothic soap opera premiered on ABC — at the ...

Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins in 'Dark Shadows' (2012). Photo: Warner Bros. Preview: Warner Bros. Animation has a new ‘Dark Shadows’ series in the works. It’ll be an animated show aimed at adults.